Improvement in sweat-bands for hats and caps



UNITED STATES PATENT @Errori GEORGE LANE, OE NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ORRIN BENEDICT 8? CO., OF BETHEL, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN SWEAT-BANDS FOR HATSAND CAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 146,692, dated January 20, 1874; application filed December 12, 1873.

To all whom fit may concern: Y

Be it knorm that I, GEORGE LANE, of the i city, county, and State of New York, have inthat will not be injuriously affected by it, and

which, moreover, does not make such an illventilated hat as a continuous leather band would, and therefore conduces to a more healthful condition of the hair, and tends to reduce the liability to baldness which is so often caused by approximately air-tight coverings for the head, coniining within them vapid and noxious air and exhalations.

The accompanying drawing represents a perspective view of the hat, looking in at the sweatband.

The hat represented is nowise different from those now in common use, except in regard to its sweatband, which, as before mentioned, is made partly of leather and partly of silk, or other woven fabric. Its fore part A, which comes in contact with the forehead, is made of the smooth leather of which sweat-bands are ordinarily made 5 but its main portion, which is in contact with the hair and does not need to `be so smooth, for comforts sake, is made of silk, and affords to the hat greater facility for ventilation, as it does not form such an air-tight lit around the head. Moreover, the durability ot' the sweat-band is increased, inasmuch as a material to which the grease of the hair is only slightly injurious is substituted for one that is very materially aiiected by it, especially when enameled. This may seem an unimportant point, but, if so, a great mistake is made, for the hair is always greasy, whether artificial grease is applied to it or not, and, in time, t

ders baldness and other diseases of the scalp.

The openings among the meshes of the silken fabric, together with the interstices among the hairs of the head, aiord a greater facility for t a proper ventilation, which so much conduces to a healthy condition of the scalp, and obvi-` ates, in a great measure, premature baldness-u that great scourge of modern times.

A hat furnished with such a sweat-band is incomparably cooler for summer use than one made of leather, and yet is abundantly warm for winter wear.

The silk and leather are united by pasting or, sewing, and the sweat-band so formed is se; cured within the hat in the usual way.

What l claim as my invention is- The hat or cap sweat-baud having its fore part, that fits the forehead, made of leather, and its main portion, which is in contact with the hair, made of silk or other woven fabric, substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth. i

JEO. LANE.

lVitnesses HENRY T. BROWN, MICHAEL RYAN. 

